Hamish Macbeth · Book 2
Death of a Cad
- Published
- 1 January 1987
- Pages
- 187
- ISBN-13
- 9780804102254
- Type
- novel
About this book
The second book, Death of a Cad (1987), runs 187 pages and keeps Hamish firmly planted in Lochdubh, more interested in the town's eccentrics and his own unhurried life than in the case officially assigned to Strathbane detectives.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of a Cad is book 2 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of a Gossip. It is followed by Death of an Outsider. See the full Hamish Macbeth reading order.
Constable Hamish Macbeth is the laziest ambitious man in the Scottish Highlands: a lanky, red-headed village policeman in the fictional coastal town of Lochdubh who works hard at exactly one thing, staying a lowly constable, because promotion would mean a desk in Strathbane and losing the poaching, fishing and gossiping that make his unhurried life worth living. M. C. Beaton (the pen name of Marion Chesney) built the series as the gentler, more whimsical sibling to her later Agatha Raisin books: the crimes are…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780804102254